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No Icons or Toolbar when booting XP

Tonofun77

Posted 06 December 2007 - 06:48 PM

Tonofun77

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Howdy! For the past few days, I have been unable to boot my desktop properly. It will load the wallpaper, but no icons or toolbar. I have tried to revert to "lask known config", but it didn't solve the problem.

I found this article on Microsoft support which explains my problem EXACTLY!!

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Kelvin

Posted 06 December 2007 - 10:14 PM

Kelvin

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If you do not get any icons/start/task bar, Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) is not starting, or hanged. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and select Processes. Find explorer.exe there. If it isn't there, then go to Applications > New Task. Enter explorer.exe in the bar.

If it gives you the "Explorer.exe has encountered a problem" error, please quote the error and the details down.